Women’s economic capacity and children’s human capital accumulation

Jacobus Hoop (), Patrick Premand, Furio Rosati and Renos Vakis
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Jacobus Hoop: UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti
Renos Vakis: The World Bank

Journal of Population Economics, 2018, vol. 31, issue 2, No 5, 453-481

Abstract: Abstract Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children’s participation in school and work that are theoretically undetermined. We present a simple model to describe the possible channels through which these programs may affect children’s activities. Based on a cluster-randomized trial, we examine how a program providing capital and training to women in poor rural communities in Nicaragua affected children. Children in beneficiary households are more likely to attend school 1 year after the end of the intervention. An increase in women’s influence on household decisions appears to contribute to the program’s beneficial effect on school attendance.

Keywords: Women’s economic capacity; Female empowerment; Child labor; Human capital accumulation; Field experiment; Nicaragua (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 H43 I25 J22 J24 O15 O22 Q12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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